Resumo

MELO, Flávia. It’s Not Smokes, It’s Fire! Anti-Gender Crusade and Feminist Resistances in Brazil. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.3, e72564.  Epub 01-Set-2020. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2020v28n372564.

Recent events positioned the gender in the heartwood of Brazilian public life. In this article, I describe two processes imbricated to it: the anti-gender crusade and the outbreak of the “feminist spring”. The first, a transnational Catholic strategy, emerged in 2014. Years later, pro-impeachment parliamentarians cast votes in favour of the family and against the “gender ideology” - expression appropriated by a powerful coalition inside and outside parliament. In 2018, the anti-gender campaign returned to national debates with Jair Bolsonaro running for president. The rejection of the candidate aggregated thousands of women in social networks and in the streets, forming the #elenão movement. But this was not a sudden or unprecedented reaction: women's resistance has demonstrating the potency of their alliances and challenging the “smoke screen” thesis that labels the tactics of the current government.

Palavras-chave : Anti-gender Crusade; Feminisms; Conservatism; Religion.

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